Demos by George Gissing: “I am translating the great treatise of Marx, “Das capital.” It occurs to me that a chapter now and then might see the light in the “Fiery Cross.””
The Comedians by Graham Greene: “"...several of Gaboriau's romans policiers, Renan's Vie de Jésus, and rather surprisingly among its companions Marx's Das Kapital rebound in exactly the same calf so that it was indistinguishable at a distance from Les Misérables." — genuine description of the books on Brown's family library shelves.”
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene: “"You have a Marx on your shelves?" "Of course." "Das Kapital?" "Yes."”
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene: “The Bible is as unreadable to me as Das Kapital.”
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari: “he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: “Communism too has its holy scripts and prophetic books, such as Marx's Das Kapital, which foretold that history would soon end”
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth: “He remembered the Modern Library Giant: Das Kapital”